Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor

Thesis Title: The Criminality of Tobacco in Seventeenth-century England
Funded by: Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship
Start Year: 2014
Supervisors
Primary: Professor Phil Withington | Secondary: Dr Tom Leng
Research Topic
This research aims to cast a wide net over the seventeenth century and explore the criminal aspects connected to the production, trade, and consumption of tobacco. Specific illegal behaviour included domestic cultivation, the importation of untaxed tobacco, unlicensed retailing, adulteration, and excessive consumption. Alex is particularly interested in how these practices changed over the course of the century and their effects on specific communities.

What we aim to achieve

Our fundamental mission is to locate, understand, and privilege what it is to be ‘human’.